One of the genres I see most often in my translation from the Greek Anthology are dedicatory poems: verses to dedicate a significant gift from some person to the temple of a God. I give here a few examples ( Read more... )

A man (they say)
whom a mad dog
has bitten, sees,
stooping to drink,
that dog's image
upon the water.

Did Love, rabid,
fasten his teeth
within my flesh?
Your eyes glance
and smile in
the sea, the stream's
slow eddies,
the wine-cup.

Paulos (a Greek poet of the early Byzantine period)
Trans. Andrew Miller

Nothing is sweeter than love, all ( Read more... )